The Great Salt Lick Contest & Auction

The 15th Annual Great Salt Lick Contest & Auction is Saturday, September 16, 2023. Viewing of the entries at Baker City's unique fundraising event begins at 5:30 p.m.; the auction starts at 6:30 p.m.
Instigated by Whit Deschner, The Great Salt Lick is Baker City’s homegrown slaphappy event where used licked livestock salt blocks are sold as art for as little as $25 and as much as $2,900! Where the artists, although appreciated, are not paid but may be eaten. You don’t have to be a buyer to attend this event. Just come for a laugh and watch master auctioneer Mib Daily cast his charm over the audience. Bid if you dare. In 15 years, the auction has been featured on the front page of the Oregonian, OPB’s art beat, NPR’s Weekend Edition, the Smithsonian webpage, and among others, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, coffee table book, Odd is Art. In 15 years, the auction has raised $175,000 for Parkinson’s research at OHSU. Admission is free. Light dinner is available. This will be Whit’s last salt lick gathering.
Adult beverages will be available for purchase, as well as food from Young Roots Farm.

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Get your licks in now!
Enter your animal-created salt licks at Oregon Trail Livestock Supply, Richland Feed and Seed, or Churchill School. 
Categories:

• People's Choice:   1st: $100   2nd: $75   3rd: $50
• Forgeries:   1st: $100   2nd: $75   
• Most artistically licked block:   1st: $150   2nd: $100   3rd: $75   4th: $50
• Best Poem with a block:   1st: $100   2nd: $75   3rd: $50
• Best Poem without a block:   1st: $100   2nd: $75   3rd: $50